Lič is a
village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
in
Primorje-Gorski Kotar
Primorje – Gorski Kotar County (, ) is a county in western Croatia, most of it based in the historical and cultural region called Croatia proper and some of it in Istria, including the Bay of Kvarner, the surrounding Northern Croatian Littora ...
, western
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...
. It is located 2 km to the south of
Fužine, which it is also a part of administratively. As of 2021, it had a population of 446.
Lič is located not far from
Viševica mountain and
Lake Bajer. The village is connected by the
M202 railway.
History
The
volunteer fire department
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respo ...
DVD Vrata was founded in 1933, and is today part of the ''VZ općine Fužine''. Its current commander is Dino Polić.
On 17 June between Fužine and Lič, about 40 Partisans dressed in
Ustaša uniforms but with
Partisan caps carried out a rifle attack on a train travelling from
Plasa to
Delnice
Delnice () is a town in western Croatia, the largest settlement in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar, in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The town has a population of 3861, and total municipality population is 5135 (2021). Delnice is Gorsk ...
. 9 railway workers jumped out and dispersed into the forest, but the conductor Aleksander Španer of
Hrvatske Moravice was heavily wounded, receiving first aid in Lič. The Partisans then attacked the railway guard station 420, which completely burned down.
On 21 April 2023 at 10:10 the ''JVP Delnice'' received a call about a
hallway
A hallway (also passage, passageway, corridor or hall) is an interior space in a building that is used to connect other rooms. Hallways are generally long and narrow.
Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings can be evacuated duri ...
fire in Lič. One person was injured. it was put out at 12:00 by ''JVP Delnice'', ''DVD Lič'' and ''DVD Vrata''.
On 21 March 2024 at 14:50 the ''ŽVOC Rijeka'' received a call about a
wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a ...
in the area. burned by the time it was put out at 16:45 by ''DVD Lič''.
Climate
A weather station exists there at an elevation of . The minimum recorded temperature for the winter of 2024–2025 was , on February 20th and 21st.
Demographics
In 1895, the ''obćina'' of Lič (court at Lič), with an area of , belonged to the ''kotar'' of Delnice (Delnice court and
electoral district
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
) in the ''županija'' of Modruš-Rieka (
Ogulin
Ogulin () is a town in central Croatia, in Karlovac County. It has a population of 7,389 (2021) (it was 8,216 in 2011), and a total municipal population of 12,251 (2021). Ogulin is known for its historic stone castle, known as Kula, and the nearby ...
court and financial board). There were 270 houses, with a population of 1428. Its 4 villages were encompassed for taxation purposes by a single ''porezna obćina'', under the Delnice office.
Governance
National
At the
1920 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election in Modruš-Rijeka County, Lič voted mainly for the
Communist Party and the
Croatian Union.
Sports
The "Gorski Kotar Bike Tour", held annually since 2012,
sometimes goes through Lič, such as in the third leg for 2024.
References
Bibliography
*
Dialectology
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** Review:
** Review:
History
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* Online publication 2016-01-09.
Tourism
* Republished as
Medviđak Bibliography
*
External links
Populated places in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
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